Revision as of 05:04, 6 April 2013

One month after Gramps 4.0.0 alpha5, the Gramps Developers have released:

The first Gramps 4.0.0 beta release. This is a preview, so use for testing!"

It is recommended to use Gramps 4.0.0 with python 3.2 so as to be ready
for the future (python 2.7 works though).

The dependencies for Gramps 4.0.0 are completely different than 3.4 due
to the switch to GObject introspection, and the removal of autotools. So
only install 4.0.0 if you are certain you can obtain the dependencies,
see README and INSTALL.

Version 3.4.3 of Gramps! "'Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown'", a maintenance release.

The main changes are:

Sorting of names, places etc. uses the International Components for Unicode (ICU) libraries which resolves many bugs particularly on MS Windows, and ensures that sorting is the same for all platforms.

Addon checking and download works again.

A large number of fixes to Narrative Web. In particular, media objects attached to events and sources are now output.

Many other bug fixes.

Detailed changes are as follows (numbers in brackets refer to bug numbers):

Sorting (both in the main display window, and particularly in Narrative Web output) now uses ICU/PyICU (if that module is available). Inclusion of PyICU is 'strongly recommended'. This resolves a number of bugs particularly related to sorting of non-Latin characters, and sorting on MS Windows and Mac OS X. Some changes have been made in Narrative Web to support contractions for alphabetic indices (2933343439334423508856455767)

The automatic Addon checking and download now works once again (the location used in Gramps 3.4.2 and before had been changed, so the the automatic process was no longer working)

Import from Pro-Gen has been updated (at last) to take account of the change to Citations (in 3.4.0) (6195)

Import and Export of address fields in GEDCOM has been improved so that the round-trip works properly (6382)

GEDCOM Repositories not imported correctly from FTM for Windows and Heredis (6507)

This release should fix a major bug in upgrade code that causes broken family trees if you upgrade a family tree from 3.3.x.

Changes since alpha2:

ability to add a tag when importing. Adds preference, and tag on import for CSV, XML, and GEDCOM file formats.

improvements on setup.py

New URL for gramps-addons

better LANG variable management

better support for python 2 and python 3

bug fixes

Gramps 4.0.0 Alpha2 released.

2012.12.31

The Gramps Developers have released:

UNSTABLE Gramps 4.0.0 Alpha2 release.

This is a technology preview to allow plugin writers and packagers-installer
writers to update their plugins and scripts. This release is not production
ready, so use for testing!"

It is recommended to use Gramps 4.0.0 with python 3.2 so as to be ready
for the future (python 2.7 works though).

The dependencies for Gramps 4.0.0 are completely different than 3.4 due
to the switch to GObject introspection, and the removal of autotools. So
only install 4.0.0 if you are certain you can obtain the dependencies,
see README and INSTALL.

Gramps 3.4.0 (The "always look on the bright side of life" feature release") released.

2012.05.21

The Gramps Developers have released:

Version 3.4.0 of Gramps! "The always look on the bright side of life feature release.

'Source References' have been replaced by 'Citations' which have the new characteristic that they can be shared and can have media objects and 'data' elements attached to them (see GEPS 023 for a long rationale and explanation of the change)

2010.12.04 The GRAMPS project is pleased to announce the new release of the Linux Genealogy CD 6.1. This Live CD is based on Ubuntu 10.10 (The Maverick Meerkat ) Desktop CD and, features a pre-installed GRAMPS 3.2.5, as well as GraphViz program to draw pretty graphs in with GRAMPS.

With this disc, you can boot and run Linux genealogical (and other) software without touching anything on the hard drive.
In addition to the Live Session, this disk also allows permanent installation of Linux and genealogical software on your computer's hard drive.

"I will not buy this record." (Too many changes and bug fixes to list since 3.0.0 was released 1 year ago in March 2008.)

"My hovercraft is full of eels." (Fixes, fixes, and more fixes. Several new features, styled notes, updates to gramplets and reports.)

"If I said you have a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?" (Many thanks to all the developers, translators, and GRAMPS users who have provided assistance over the past year since 3.0.0 was first released.)

"You have beautiful thighs." (Since 3.0.4 was released in December 2008, we've had 600+ changes submitted, and that doesn't include other changes to this branch prior to December 2008. This is a very active release! See ChangeLog for the full details.)

Gramps 3.0.4 ("All the children sing") released.

2008.12.06 This release contains the following:

Translation updates for ca, de, fr, it, lt, nb, nl, nn, pl, ru, sv

Bug fix #2504: sorting issues with non-English languages

Bug fix #2509: filter string match with non-ASCII characters

Bug fix #2483: DbError handling

Bug fix #2486: drag-and-drop workaround

Bug fix dealing with importing notes from csv

Bug fix #1601: import open error

Bug fix #2518, #2529, and various other fixes for shortcut key confusion

Bug fix #2483, 2520, 2524: change in bdb attributes and methods

Bug fix #2512: python 2.6 support

Bug fix #2485: cannot create new family tree

Bug fix #2507: unhandled exception when pasting invalid string

Bug fix #2503: change to use of md5 module

Bug fix to .desktop file

Gramps 3.0.3 ("I have this terrible feeling of déjà vu") released.

2008.10.19 This release contains the following:

Fix to prevent GRAMPS from hanging when running Graphviz reports

New translation: Catalan (ca)

Translation updates for de, fr, it, nb, nl, no, ru

Clean up references to gconf

Fixes for linking to the wiki manual

Small fixes in grampsxml DTD

The primary reason for the 3.0.3 release is to fix the Graphviz report hang issue introduced in 3.0.2.

Gramps 3.0.2 ("You look like a milkman to me") released.

2008.09.27 This release contains many bug fixes.

Translation updates for de, fr, hr, nl, no, pl, ru, sv

Many bug fixes (see ChangeLog for full list)

Several fixes backported from trunk

Many fixes to report plugins

Windows-specific fix for RCS

GEDCOM fix for ADDR

Fix for media with non-ASCII characters in filename

Fixes to Gramplets

Linux Genealogy CD 4.0

2008.06.26 The GRAMPS project is pleased to announce the new release of the Linux Genealogy CD 4.0. This Live CD is based on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Desktop CD and, in addition to the regular Hardy, features pre-installed GRAMPS 3.0.1, GeneWeb, and LifeLines applications, as well as GraphViz program to draw pretty graphs in GRAMPS.

With this disc, you can boot and run Linux
genealogical (and other) software without touching anything
on the hard drive.
In addition to the Live Session, this disk also allows permanent
installation of Linux and genealogical software on your computer's hard
drive.

The GRAMPS project is pleased to announce the new release of the Linux Genealogy CD 3.0. This disk is based on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) and features GRAMPS 2.2.7, as well as other genealogy software: GeneWeb and LifeLines. The disk can be used both as a Live Session CD, and as the installation disk to install Ubuntu and genealogy software permanently on your hard drive (if you so wish).
Download and details: see Linux Genealogy CD